The Google foray into New Zealand, dubbed Project Loon, is perhaps the most ambitious high-tech test carried out in the country.

Google's plans to beam the Internet from giant balloons sent to the stratosphere could boost small businesses in rural parts of Asia by connecting them online.

Google is the top dog, dominating mobile maps used on smartphones, and Waze makes Google a bigger dog.

Google's legal move came as the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) ramped up a campaign to pressure Congress to put an end to online snooping.

Google has officially launched Product Listing Ads aka Google Shopping that offer richer ad listings featuring details like images and price.

Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for a new class of non-voting shares later this year.

The objective of the campaign is to help simplify the Web for Indian users, showing how they can get instant answers to their most common queries.

Google's Moto X smartphone leaked specifications hint at a dual-core Qualcomm processor alongside 2GB RAM.

The second generation Nexus 7 has appeared online on the Bluetooth SIG website, which mentions that it will be powered by a Snapdragon 600 processor.

The balloons have the potential to provide Internet access far more cheaply, quickly and widely than traditional underground fiber cables.